LOL. my OCD is twitching that its called 'height' in one place and 'blocks' in another.
inconsitent labelling. ow ow ow ow!

artbyte (aby) update

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=503131.msg44021153#msg44021153

thank-you!
i'm willing to add/modify those instructions if given suggestions.

in the back of my mind i keep thinking i'd like to open an exchange just for obscure altcoins that i support out of my whimiscal nature and the name of the coin.  and possibly other coins that bribe me with a monthly listing fee.

it would only exchange with LTC and Doge markets and no BTC support since presumably such obscure coins would not achieve high enough valuations.

butt... i need to locate *good* open-source exchange code to run on linux.

and i need to be convinced the exchange fees would pay the monthly virtual server costs after the first couple months of setup and operation. say $15euro/month to start and increasing with higher usage loads -- this seems very very unlikely without finding altcoins willing to pay monthly listing fees in BCH, LTC or Doge.

i'd also run iquidus explorers for each altcoin on the exchange.

and of course provide download links for the inevitably modified coin daemons/wallets i run, along with a simple web page describing the coin (like my above ndl link.)

i can make the time to admin (and minor modify) stuff, just not the focused undisturbed time to develop new code

and of course there will be dealing with DDOS attacks (i'd be inclined to just let them happen, until the botnet gets bored and moves on to other victims.)

but, alas, this is all just an unlikely dream

but i like how they squeak against my teeth

once you select (checkmarks) a bunch of smaller peieces that is at least worth 10000, you hit okay and that gets you back to the main "SEND" interface.
you should now see some numbers for things like 'quantity', 'amount', 'fee', and 'after fee' displayed just under the INPUTS button.

you then have to send those coins to yourself (your own HBN address) in the "pay to" box
also set the 'custom change address' to the same address you enter for "pay to"
then enter an 'amount' of 10000 (or whatever size.) then hit the big SEND button.

i created for myself (under the 'receive coins' tab) an address i call consolidation for this purpose.

oh, like any SENDing of coins, you will be charged a tiny processing fee. i find its worth it to keep my patience level sane.

settings->options->display->display coin control features (experts only)

also in the bottom right corner of your QT wallet window there is a tiny up-arrow circular icon.
if you hover your mouse over it it should give a pop-up tip indicating an estimated time until the
next staking.

oh... i just noticed the button is grey if a passworded wallet has not had its password entered, and green if active.

is yours passworded? did you unlock the wallet with that password from under the "WALLET' options?
that could explain not staking in 3 days too.

and your wallet *should* be passworded, especially with 400k coin

in your QT wallet enable through options "coin control features"
then under "SEND" look under the "INPUTS" button.
i find lumps less than 5,000 coins just take too long to stake for my level of patience, i actually use 10,000

i consolidate lumps by selecting several smaller lumps and sending those coins to an address i own.
i set both the 'change" address and the "to" address to be the same (my own address) and send nice
even lump sizes.
of course tihs pocess will lose any 'potential' stake the smaller pieces have earned up to this point in time -- the stake timer is reset for those coins. if you already have lumps between 1,000 and 5,000 i'd probably just be patient and wait for them to eventually stake before you bother merging them into larger lumps.

you also do not want gigantic lumps, the maximum stake i believe is 250 coins at a time. a gigantic lump would be worth more than 250 in stake interest in the interval taken to stake (i believe there is something like one or two weeks minimum stake wait time.)

when you do stake, that lump will most likely split in half and you will have to remerge them.
unless you have your stakesplit and stakemerge options set perfectly. dont ask me how, i dont use them

this is why i use 10,000 size lumps, lets me go a round of staking without paying attention since the resultant two 5000+interest
lumps will stake in a reasonable time.

if you find this explaination useful, set your 'stake-for-charity' address to my address at about 50% rate. lol... just kidding

pool noodles

and the irony is i have an iquidus NDL instance (and others ) running on my 8core 24gig AMD linux system, but have only a consumer/home internet connection and so really cant invite outside access. especially with bell.ca network blocking http/https traffic (to all ports) transiting its network to what it deems to be 'home users'. i'm not even a bell.ca customer
here it is, dont use it http://coins.dognose.net:3001/
my firewall will limit to 3 or 4 connections, so you may get denied, if your internet traffic routes over bell.ca 's network, it wont work either. explorer updates at 10 minute intervals.

thats me, use addnode=coins.dognose.net and not the ip#, the ip# occasionally changes.

birthday weekend, i do not plan on being lucid starting in a few hours

okay, one cpu core 6 hours day increased to two cpu cores 11 hours a day
such greed. much noodles

have you looked into nlexch.com ?
its a small low volume exchange, but if you can convince them to list they dont charge for the listing.
https://www.nlexch.com/coinlisting

oh wow...

nearly three years ago i put up a fulltime node at coins.dognose.net and set up a few hours daily cpu mining to keep the blockchain moving and a cheesy info website at http://coins.dognose.net/~ndl/ then promptly got busy and distracted and havent really looked-in since.
oh, and an Abe block explorer that was a totally useless lump of crap

i see a community has risen up now. even a new wallet assembled and an iquidus explorer.

coolness!

so, i limited myself to a few hours automated daily cpu mining after an initial period of real hashing to be 'fair' and not run away with a (more) massive booty of ndl, and to simply keep the chain moving and alive while the world slept.

is my moderate behavior no longer necessary, can i get greedy again? arrrrrr!

i'm cool with it.

addnode=coins.dognose.net

THIS.
but i suspect you meant to say: year/decade

are you accepting suggestions for other altcoins?
my favourites are
  MetalMusicCoin MTLMC    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=965360
and
  TruckCoin TRK    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2291875

novaexchange just announced that they will not be accepting USA users. it does not affect me, but it's probably not going to be the best choice as the 'only' exchange for a new coin.

nlexch.com may be a good place to list. it's free.
sure, it's low volume, but volumes on that exchange should naturally grow as it gets a greater variety of coins.

https://www.nlexch.com/coinlisting

the exchange has already saved my butt with franko, new-casino and dnotes2

nothing preventing me. other than only having 1 day weekends from work and not actually caring if it gets fixed.

still, i had an initial panic attack

also, it seems to overstate my holdings for an address. i often self-send to that address to consolidate lumps to make larger staking units. the self-sends could be either one input or two inputs (one being it's own address, or my mining address. two inputs being both its own address and my mining address)
i'm wondering if its adding the self-send amounts but failing to subtract the amounts coming from the same address as itself?

[edit: let me restate the inputs, it could be one source-address input or two source-address inputs, zero or more from itself and zero or more from my mining address. not actually limited to just one or two inputs, but one or two sources with possibly multiple blocks each]


yes i know about split/combine blocks options, i'm a micromanager